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<span class=large>AMOS</span>
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CHAPTER 4
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The Lord withholds rain, sends famine and pestilence, and destroys gardens and vineyards as judgments upon his people, yet they do not return unto the Lord.
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Hear</span> this word, ye <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE cows.">kine</a> of Bashan, that <i>are</i> in the mountain of <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/4/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 6: 1.">Samaria</a>, which oppress the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/4/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 20: 2.">poor</a>, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
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The Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> hath sworn by his <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 89: 35.">holiness</a>, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
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And ye shall go out at the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR broken places.">breaches</a>, every <i>cow at that which is</i> before her; and ye shall cast <i>them</i> into the palace, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 9: 15 (13-15).">Gilgal</a> multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, <i>and</i> your <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/4/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 14: 28; D&C 119: 4 (4-5).">tithes</a> after three <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/4/4c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB days.">years</a>:
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And offer a sacrifice of <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Thanksgiving.">thanksgiving</a> with <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/4/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Leaven.">leaven</a>, and proclaim <i>and</i> publish the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/4/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 22: 18 (18-21).">free</a> offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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&#182; And I also have given you <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 52: 6.">cleanness</a> of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/4/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hag. 2: 17; Hel. 12: 3; D&C 43: 22 (22-30).">returned</a> unto me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And also I have withholden the <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 3: 3.">rain</a> from you, when <i>there were</i> yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
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So two <i>or</i> three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured <i>them:</i> yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 25; D&C 45: 33.">young</a> men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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I have overthrown <i>some</i> of you, as God <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 13: 19.">overthrew</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/4/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 24.">Sodom</a> and Gomorrah, and ye were as a <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/4/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Zech. 3: 2.">firebrand</a> plucked out of the <sup>d</sup><a href="amos/4/11d" mark="d" type="A" title="Mal. 4: 1; Jude 1: 23.">burning</a>: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: <i>and</i> because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
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For, lo, he that <sup>a</sup><a href="amos/4/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">formeth</a> the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what <i>is</i> his <sup>b</sup><a href="amos/4/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 139: 2; Jacob 2: 5; Alma 18: 32; 3 Ne. 28: 6; D&C 33: 1.">thought</a>, that maketh the <sup>c</sup><a href="amos/4/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Amos 5: 8.">morning</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="amos/4/13d" mark="d" type="A" title="Amos 8: 9.">darkness</a>, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, The God of hosts, <i>is</i> his name.
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